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Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004

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Asifnagar residents seek halt to commercial activity

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, DEC. 13. The HUDA Colony Asifnagar Owner and Residents Welfare Society has threatened to launch hunger strike in January in front of the Office of Hyderabad Urban Development Authority to protest against the commercial activity in the residential zone as also to press for solution for their long pending civic problems.

Disclosing this to media persons here on Monday, the Society president, Ahmed Mohiuddin, said that they had been representing to HUDA authorities for the last several years to ensure proper development of the colony with amenities like parks, roads and drinking water and prohibit commercial activity in the area which was earmarked as residential zone, as it was resulting in pollution. Except the six-year-old drinking water problem, no other issue had been resolved.

Vacant plots misused

Mr. Mohiuddin and the general secretary, K. Parma Hansa, said that of the 150 plots in the colony, 20 to 30 plots were vacant and were being misused by gamblers, scrap merchants. Some of the empty plots were being let out to dump the scrap. Five saw mills and eight large-scale furniture-manufacturing units had also come up against norms in the residential zone.

All this unauthorised activity had been resulting in pollution and traffic problems affecting life. Even the vacant HUDA office in the colony was being misused and "We have appealed to HUDA to allot it for the Association's office."

Hunger strikes would also be launched in front of the offices of Municipal Corporation and Pollution Control Board in the third and fourth weeks of January respectively before filing a petition in the High Court.

Meanwhile, legal notices had been issued to HUDA, MCH, APPCB, Police Department, Chief Inspector of Factories, AP, and the Commissioner of Industries for initiating action on their complaints, they said.

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